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The anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I
19/11/2022

The anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I

Is this a film set or a real place? What do you think?
30/07/2022

Is this a film set or a real place? What do you think?

04/04/2022

šŸ’„šŸ’„Job Opportunity šŸ’„šŸ’„
(Still available)

Ever fancied moving to Applecross? We have a double en suite room in our staff house now available so are looking a for a couple / 2 friends to join our team (this is the view from the staff garden - just saying šŸ˜‰).

This can be a chef & front of house couple or 2 front of house but may be flexible.

Good rates of pay, fantastic benefits and excellent tips, free gym membership at Applecross Gym, meals provided on duty, and accommodation available with views like this where you can chill out on your days off (we also do our utmost to give you the best work / life balance we can).

Not many people get the opportunity to move somewhere like Applecross so we know chances like this donā€™t come up too often, but we are looking for an immediate start and want to get the positions filled ASAP.

Send your CV to Mark / Judith at [email protected] or send us a message if interested.

17/03/2022
Adare Manor has even less space!
11/03/2022

Adare Manor has even less space!

Ashford Castle is amazingly busy for June already. Book early for you Irish holidays!
11/03/2022

Ashford Castle is amazingly busy for June already. Book early for you Irish holidays!

10/01/2022

Travel & Leisureā€™s January 2022 Edition gives its suggestions for The Best Places in Dublin to Eat, Drink, and Shop in Dublin.
They suggest staying at The Shelbourne. Much as I love the grand dame, especially now that her nubile Nubians are back in position, I think that the Merrion has far better rooms, and is not part of a chain.
It then suggests breakfast at Brother Hubbard as a decadent treat. Not sure about that either. My experience of Brother Hubbard (which I do like) has been more Heytsbury Street Hipster than Decadent. In the absence of The Country Shop, where would I bring a visitor to Dublin for breakfast? Maybe Bewleys for the atmosphere. Or Alma, on the South Circular, though thatā€™s still a bit too Heytsbury Street Hipster. My favourite greasy spoon by the Fruit and Veg market is now a building site, but on that side of town is Wuff in Smithfield which is pretty good. But for real Dublin character it has to be Dekeā€™s Diner in a container on the Ringsend roundabout.
It then suggests a 1916 walking tour. Nah. Thereā€™s more to Dublin than the Easter Rising. Our own walking tours do the full 4,000 years, from the slight stone age settlement to some slightly good modern buildings!
Snag lunch at Fish Shop. Hmmm. Fine if you like fish and are not gluten free. I think that I would have chosen The Fumbally or the cafƩ at The Hugh Lane Gallery or The Silk Road CafƩ at the Chester Beatty. But for Dublin style and originality maybe it should be Assassination Custard on Kevin Street.
Make your way to Brown Thomas for a personal shopping experience. I canā€™t argue with that, though my bank manager might. We offer a great at, antiques and craft shops tour. And I love the Joycean literary tours. And wealthy fashionistas should not miss Louise Kennedyā€™s atelier on Merrion Square.
Visit the stunning Trinity College Library. I find myself in 100% agreement, though be quick before it closes for refurbishment.
Dine on the Early Bird Special at Richmond. Yes, the Richmond is definitely one of a cornucopia of great dining places that have appeared around Dublin over the last few years ā€“ Bastible, Forest and Marcy, Variety Jones, -- I donā€™t think that I could have picked just one.
And finally for the pub experience it suggests that you order a pint or a dram at The Palace Bar on Fleet Street. A perfectly respectable bar, but there are so many others ā€“ The Stagā€™s Head, upstairs at The Bruxelles, The Cobblestone for music, The Gravediggers. Famously, Toners on Baggot Street was the only pub that W.B. Yeats ever had a drink in. He was brought into the snug by Oliver St John Gogarty and not enjoying the experience, never set foot in a pub again. Perhaps the best bar to visit would be Sam Stephenson's 1957 Horseshoe Bar in The Shelbourne described with forensic accuracy by a previous GM, paraphrasing Dorian Gray, as being full of ā€œladies with a past and men with no futureā€.

Stephenā€™s day walk :-)ļæ¼
26/12/2021

Stephenā€™s day walk :-)ļæ¼

06/11/2021

St. Carthage's Cathedral, Lismore, is holding an online sale of donated artworks today with all funds helping to conserve this nationally important building that has been a place of worship and learning since 635AD. Find your work of art on https://versoart.ie/

Pair of gateways, c. 1820. Section of rubble stone walled garden, c. 1820, to site. Remainder of estate (including hou...
06/11/2021

Pair of gateways, c. 1820. Section of rubble stone walled garden, c. 1820, to site. Remainder of estate (including house) now demolished and site cleared. It is hard to guess the date that Thornberry was built. The central half octagon bay is reminiscent of Mount Brown in County Limerick and Wilton that once stood outside Urlingford, both from the middle of the 18th century. ...

https://laoishouses.wordpress.com/2021/11/06/thornberry-house-abbeyleix/

Pair of gateways, c. 1820. Section of rubble stone walled garden, c. 1820, to site. Remainder of estate (including house) now demolished and site cleared. It is hard to guess the date that Thornbā€¦

Laois County Council is inviting submissions to help shape the Laois Heritage and Biodiversity Strategy, 2021-2026. .As ...
14/10/2021

Laois County Council is inviting submissions to help shape the Laois Heritage and Biodiversity Strategy, 2021-2026. .As announce in the 2021 budget Heritage funding for 2022 will amount to ā‚¬133.5m (a 36% increase). This is my wish list, which I think could and should be echoed across all counties of Ireland. What have I left out? To do a hedgerow survey and teach hedge laying - maybe working with the local IFA /ICAā€¦...

https://laoishouses.wordpress.com/2021/10/15/nothing-to-do-with-the-past-but-everything-to-do-with-the-future/

Laois County Council is inviting submissions to help shape the Laois Heritage and Biodiversity Strategy, 2021-2026. .As announce in the 2021 budget Heritage funding for 2022 will amount to ā‚¬133.5m ā€¦

If you can't travel to Ireland or Britain, maybe buy yourself a present instead!
02/10/2021

If you can't travel to Ireland or Britain, maybe buy yourself a present instead!

The jewels carry an estimate of $2 to $4 million but may fetch a far higher price

23/09/2021
KNIGHTSTOWN or BALLINRIDDERY Knightsbrook Knightsbrook - The rear facade The National Inventory of Architectural Heritag...
18/09/2021

KNIGHTSTOWN or BALLINRIDDERY Knightsbrook Knightsbrook - The rear facade The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage describes Knightstown as a five-bay two-storey Georgian house with dormer attic, built c.1760, with pedimented central breakfront and stair return to rear. Extended to rear comprising single-storey return. Double-pitched and hipped artificial slate roof with gabled dormer attic windows and nap rendered chimneystacks with yellow clay pots....

https://laoishouses.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/knightstown/

Knightstown, a house with a past and, we hope, a future

The early years Francis Ruish was born in 1560 in Sudbourne, a village near Aldeburgh in Suffolk. A younger son, he som...
15/09/2021

The early years Francis Ruish was born in 1560 in Sudbourne, a village near Aldeburgh in Suffolk. A younger son, he somehow bought the manor of Sarre on the Isle of Thanet near Canterbury from John Byer or Bere, whose descendants became goldsmiths in Dublin in the 1700s before opening Abrakebabra in the 1980s. Ruishā€™s cousin Sir Richard Wingfield had come to Ireland as a military adventurer in the latter part of the 16th century and became Marshal of Ireland in 1600 and ended up owning Powerscourt. ...

https://laoishouses.wordpress.com/2021/09/15/rush-hall/

Rush Hall, the seat of the Earls of Mountrath for nearly 100 years, with buried treasure protected by a phnatom soldier

05/09/2021

If this is true, this is interesting!

After succumbing to a fever of some sort in 1705, Irish woman Margorie McCall was hastily buried to prevent the spread of whatever had done her in. Margorie was buried with a valuable ring, which her husband had been unable to remove due to swelling. This made her an even better target for body snatchers, who could cash in on both the co**se and the ring.

The evening after Margorie was buried, before the soil had even settled, the grave-robbers showed up and started digging. Unable to pry the ring off the finger, they decided to cut the finger off. As soon as blood was drawn, Margorie awoke from her coma, sat straight up and screamed.
The fate of the grave-robbers remains unknown. One story says the men dropped dead on the spot, while another claims they fled and never returned to their chosen profession.
Margorie climbed out of the hole and made her way back to her home.

Her husband John, a doctor, was at home with the children when he heard a knock at the door. He told the children, ā€œIf your mother were still alive, Iā€™d swear that was her knock.ā€
When he opened the door to find his wife standing there, dressed in her burial clothes, blood dripping from her finger but very much alive, he dropped dead to the floor. He was buried in the plot Margorie had vacated.

Margorie went on to re-marry and have several children. When she did finally die, she was returned to Shankill Cemetery in Lurgan, Ireland, where her gravestone still stands. It bears the inscription ā€œLived Once, Buried Twice.ā€

Credit - Siobhan MacFarlane
https://www.facebook.com/siobhan.mcfarlaneratcliffe

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